Genomics in Azure

Genomics analysis is an interesting field that has high computational and storage requirements. On top of that, there are compliance requirements, especially if the analysis happens on top of patient clinical data. This makes genomic research activities great candidates to run in an compliant elastic cloud, non other than Azure cloud which even has the recent NEN 7510 standard that is a mandatory requirement for all Netherland organizations that process patient health information.

Network link is disconnected

You get a new device that has a 1Gb ethernet card (mine has the I219-LM) and you start getting random network disconnects. Been there and it is frustrating. There are a couple of reasons why this could happen (faulty drivers, faulty hardware, more than 100m from router) but in my case, it was a faulty cable that was easily identified with a ethernet cable continuity checker.